Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds
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Out of All This Now
revised How to describe what many are now feelingAcutely sharp that leaves them fearful, reelingWith anxious longings for a simpler time,An echo of imaginary rhyme? The carpet once new many years hence nowHopelessly stained, a thing to disavow,This is our life, the place we live in now.We walked it here this way and came long…
Commuted Sentences: Two Movies Separated by 25 Years, Worlds Apart
Falling Down (1993) and The Commuter (2018): Two movies separated by twenty-five years, roughly one generation, present noticeably different attitudes to roughly the same concepts and societal conditions. How those “societal conditions” are portrayed are startingly different as well. The two main characters represent a similar type: White male working man with a family. The…
Lie Back and Think of England
In the dream I was to ascend to my title, the 112th earl of something or other. There was some confusion. Was I the 111th? There was a little box that had the numbers on it, written out in numerals. The ceremony started and I knew I had to get out for a moment and…
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